We go on a galactic adventure with one of our favorite Mac shareware games, Escape Velocity by Ambrosia Software. We encounter delightful pop culture references, everyone's favorite parrot space pirate, and — of course — the most destructive forklift in the universe.
Links for this episode:Escape Velocity official siteAmbrosia Softwarepre-EV releasesMaelstrom (Asteroids clone)Chiral (original)Apeiron (Centipede clone)Swoop (Galaxian clone)Barrack (JezzBall clone)utilities: Snapz Pro, WireTap, SoundBoarddevelopment of the EV seriesreleased May 5, 1996 after 13 months of developmentlead developer Matt BurchBurch was a freshman in college at releasesequels EV Override and EV NovaEV 4 "unlikely"how to play classic EV in OS X
